I have a question concerning pulling an alternate field entry from a flat database. Currently, the program below is set to pull the first field from the pipe delineated DB, but I would like to pull the 8th field. How can I accomplish this? 
open DATA,$data;

$line=<DATA>;
@fields=split('\|',substr($line,0,index($line,";")));

%data=();
while (<DATA>) {
  my(@flds)=@fields;  shift(@flds);
  my(@temp)=split('\|',substr($_,0,index($_,";")));
  my($id)=shift(@temp);

  while ($#flds>-1) {
    if ($temp[0] eq "no") {
      $temp[0]="";
    }

    $data{$id}{shift(@flds)}=shift(@temp);
  }
}
close DATA;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
open TMPL,$catalog;
while (<TMPL>) {
  $line=$_;  chop($line);
  while ($line=~/^(.*?)<!thumb=(.*?)>(.*)$/) {
    print $1;
    $id=$2;
    $line=$3;

     if ($data{$id}{'thumb'} ne "") {
        print "<a href=$show_url?database=database&action=view_product
+&productID=$2&category=$data{$id}{'Category'}>\n";
        print "<img src=${thumb_src}$data{$id}{'thumb'} border=$border
+ hspace=0 vspace=0 alt='$alt_text $data{$id}{'Name'}' height=65 width
+=65></a>";
      }
     if ($data{$id}{'Name'} ne "") {
        print "<br><font face='$font_face' size=$font_size><SMALL> $da
+ta{$id}{'Name'}<BR></SMALL></FONT><font color=red size=+1>";
        print '$', "\n";
        print "$data{$id}{'Price'}";

      }
    }
  print $line,"\n";
}
close TMPL;

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Thank you so much for any assistance you can give.

Edit kudra, 2001-09-05 Elaborated on subject which was 'Database question'

In reply to Database question: pulling a particular field from a flat database by koacamper

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